Multimedia, recordings and resources Here you’ll find all the media generated by the project, including the original audio recordings, videos, photos, educational material, podcast episodes, and press cuttings.
Original Audio recordings
Oral history tapes from the 1980s
The complete, unedited recordings of local people made on tape by Mantle Arts in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Digitised from the original cassettes and cleaned up.
Videos
Kiosk Exhibit Movies
Ten short films created by Martyn Hey for his video kiosk exhibit ‘Glimpses of a Bygone Era’, with soundtracks drawn from ten of the oral history recordings.
Education Pack/Resources
Available to download
An education pack with selections from the audio along with visual images and historical material. Designed for primary schools. Can be used as stimulus for the local history element of the History National Curriculum.
Podcast Episodes
Listen to the podcasts
Written by East Midlands writer Andy Barrett, and recorded with a community cast from N.W. Leicestershire. Each episode focuses on a different area of history mentioned in the original recordings.
Project images
Browse the collection
Photographs and visual images created during various elements of the project.